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IT is all Steven McIver’s fault. I was brought up in a village near Johnstone. He moved with his family from Stonehaven when he was five and we became best friends and, at that age, you want to fit in with your pals. So, in the early 1980s I started supporting the same club as him, and that club was Aberdeen. If only I had known then what I know now.

It’s certainly changed days now and very much for the worse, but I got in at the right time, just before all the success came about for the club. At that time, I was a goalkeeper for both the school team and the local boys’ brigade so Jim Leighton very quickly became my hero. A strange coincidence is that Jim was born close to where I was brought up: he’s from Elderslie, which is also near Paisley.